laszlo nagy was one of the activists behind the picnic.ince. you must have known that you were risking a jail sentence by doing this. yes, you know, because when i heard this, i was standing there with my car, and i received information, and i was thinking, and i knew that there was a law, that for being helpful in illegal border crossing you could get two to five years' jail. what did that moment mean? was it about embracing western—style democracy, or was it something more visceral, an act of national awakening? western europe, through the high life standards, became a post—modern system. nation is not so important, identity is not so important, the private freedom is much bigger value than traditions. in our territory, and this is not a hungarian issue, this is an eastern central europe issue, for us, identity is very important. national identity. national identity and our culture is very important, orban's main appeal is not to democracy, but to the idea of the nation. the campaign was dominated by anti—immigrant sentiment, the fear th